Very nice solve as per usual! (Spoilers below) . . . I got to COACT before you but I very much didn't think ARECA would be a word before you solved it. areca noun are·ca ə-ˈrē-kə ˈa-ri-kə : any of several tropical Asian palms (Areca or related genera) especially : betel palm OK, so ARECA makes sense to me now, but BARCA *isn't* in *most* dictionaries I'm checking. Well, except as a proper noun, being the last name of an ancient Carthaginian family. But it's legal in Scrabble (for SOWPODS/CSW or TWL/NWL) so there's clearly another definition... Some more searching tells me that it's apparently "a flat bottomed river-boat", from Latin's "barca", but the word but probably got to English through Spanish's "barça" with nearly the same definition as Latin, so still a small boat. Will I remember these words being words if I have them show up on a board in the future? Probably not, but having now checked their definition there's now at least *some* chance of them sticking in my brain for a bit.
In fact, in Spanish the ç has been lost (unlike Catalan) so "Barca" is a common word in Spanish to describe a small boat, like a river boat. I actually thought "barca" while watching the video but I wasn't sure if it would be an accepted word in English. Apparently it is by Squardle Obscure standards!
@@sonicloquendoFor non-brutal words anything that at least 30% of my word sorters said they knew was a word is included. Allowed guesses (ie the "brutal" word list) uses the same list as Wordle does (or at least the same list Wordle *started* with), so I'm honestly not quite sure of that list's origin. But given that I'm yet to find any words on it that's not legal in at least *some* version of Scrabble I suspect it might be based on a combination of multiple Scrabble word lists.
Very nice solve as per usual!
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I got to COACT before you but I very much didn't think ARECA would be a word before you solved it.
areca
noun
are·ca ə-ˈrē-kə ˈa-ri-kə
: any of several tropical Asian palms (Areca or related genera)
especially : betel palm
OK, so ARECA makes sense to me now, but BARCA *isn't* in *most* dictionaries I'm checking. Well, except as a proper noun, being the last name of an ancient Carthaginian family. But it's legal in Scrabble (for SOWPODS/CSW or TWL/NWL) so there's clearly another definition... Some more searching tells me that it's apparently "a flat bottomed river-boat", from Latin's "barca", but the word but probably got to English through Spanish's "barça" with nearly the same definition as Latin, so still a small boat.
Will I remember these words being words if I have them show up on a board in the future? Probably not, but having now checked their definition there's now at least *some* chance of them sticking in my brain for a bit.
In fact, in Spanish the ç has been lost (unlike Catalan) so "Barca" is a common word in Spanish to describe a small boat, like a river boat.
I actually thought "barca" while watching the video but I wasn't sure if it would be an accepted word in English. Apparently it is by Squardle Obscure standards!
@@sonicloquendoFor non-brutal words anything that at least 30% of my word sorters said they knew was a word is included. Allowed guesses (ie the "brutal" word list) uses the same list as Wordle does (or at least the same list Wordle *started* with), so I'm honestly not quite sure of that list's origin. But given that I'm yet to find any words on it that's not legal in at least *some* version of Scrabble I suspect it might be based on a combination of multiple Scrabble word lists.
Sisal is a fibre like linen or cotton. It is coarser than those. It is made from a plant.
10:45, first word down is obviously BASAL.
I know there's such a thing as rope made from sisal but I don't know what it is.
Very impressive solve
Ecellent sole!
I know SISAL but this puzzle is way beyond my pay grade.
Particularly because I'm retired.
Cool stuff 👍
I actually did better at the obscure version than the regular. 🤦🏼♀️
You missed the red S in the top left unfortunately
Not much of a cat person, perhaps? :) Cat scratching posts are often made of sisal rope. (I've never heard the word in a different context!)
amazing video amazing tshirt
Thanks. I actually designed that shirt myself (for the National Youth Conference in 2023)